[visarga]

NYT wants it both ways. When they were the ones putting freelancer articles into a database to rent, they argued against enforcing copyright and for supporting the new industry, and that it was too hard to revert their original assumptions. Now they absolutely love copyright.

https://harvardlawreview.org/blog/2024/04/nyt-v-openai-the-t...

[moefh]

Another way of looking at it is that they lost that case over 20 years ago, and have been building their business model for 20 years accordingly.

In other words, they want everyone to be forced to follow the same rules they were forced to follow 20 years ago.